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Photography Facilities

Located in the Nottingham School of Art & Design's Bonington building, our Photography facilities give students access to both analogue and digital equipment, studio spaces, dark rooms, and editing suites.

Our photography facilities

The photography facilities and equipment we offer at NTU includes:

  • comprehensive Mac editing suites with software for photography and video;
  • a range of Canon and Nikon digital SLR cameras
  • Phase One digital backs for large and medium format
  • 35mm cameras including Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, and Leica
  • medium format cameras including Mamiya, Hasselblad, Yashica, and Rolleicord
  • large format cameras including MPP, Wista, and Toyo
  • HD video cameras and digital SLRs with HD video
  • Bowens and Profoto strobe flash equipment
  • black-and-white darkroom for wet and dry printing processes, with 39 enlargers – these include De Vere and Durst, with multigrade, colour head, and filter drawer head
  • colour suite dedicated to colour printing with ten individual darkrooms equipped with either a De Vere 203 or 504 enlarger with a colour printing head (dry process)
  • black-and-white print processing systems including Paterson dev system and deep tank processing
  • three dedicated full-size studios with backgrounds and Profoto lighting.

Image gallery

  • black and white dark room.
    Dark room
  • Students working in our photography MAC Lab for edit
    Students working in our photography MAC Lab for edit
  • Student working in our photography MAC Lab for edit
    Student working in our photography MAC Lab for edit
  • Male student posing for photo while female student holds camera.
    Students working in one of the studios
  • Student working in one of the studios
    Student working in one of the studios
    Behind the scenes image of student Anna Teodoro working project ‘Hand Tied Bouquet’ for a live brief set by Colorama
  • Students working in one of the studios
    Student working in one of the studios
    Behind the scenes image of student Dandan Hong working on project ‘Magic Blue' for a live brief set by Colorama
  • Student working in one of the studios
    Student working in one of the studios
    Behind the scenes image of student Kathleen Stewart working on project ‘Landscape and Memories’ for a live brief set by Colorama
  • Photography and film store
    Photography and film store
  • Photography and film store
    Photography and film store
    Photography and film store
  • Students working in the darkroom
    Students working in the darkroom
    Students working in the darkroom
  • Students working in the darkroom
    Students working in the darkroom
    Students working in the darkroom
  • Photography workshop
    Photography workshop
  • Students working in one of the studios
    Students working in one of the studios
  • Students working in one of the studios
    Students working in one of the studios